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Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the…Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the…
Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithful and painful preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whately's life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the author to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his own copy.Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithfull and painefull preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whatelyes life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the authour to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his owne coppy.
London: printed by G.M. for Edward Langham book-seller, 1640London: printed by G.M. for Edvvard Langham booke-seller, 1640
Example 17: THE SEVENTEENTH EXAMPLE.Example 17: THE SEVENTENTH EXAMPLE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
His profaneness showed it self in two acts:
His prophannesse shewed it selfe in two acts:
First, in selling his birth-right.
Secondly, in despising it, and that continually, and with great carelessness; so shall you read in the Story of Gen. 25.31, 32. The matter was thus, Esau came hungry and faint from hunting, Jacob had made red pottage, Esau's hunger made his eye apt to be taken with the lively colour of the red broth; he was as hungry men be, very eager after food, and prays his brother to give him a mess of the red pottage. Jacob saith, Sell me thy birth-right then, that is, pass over to me all those privileges that appertain to thee as the elder brother, and on that condition I will give thee broth enough: Esau thinks, ⟨p. 25⟩perhaps also he said so too, I am going to die. I cannot conceive that he means, I am now ready for hunger to give up the ghost, and must needs die, if I have not instantly some of this food, for such faintness would scarce have given him leave to have entered into such a parle, & Isaacs house, or some in it would have afforded the young master something to have kept him from starving. But I suppose he meaneth, I must shortly die, & the inheritance that is to follow of this birthright, is of this land for many years hence, & therefore this birth-right will do me no good, and so he is content to sell it, & to confirm the bargain with an oath. Lo here is one act of profaneness. He shows that he did not care for heaven & life eternal, whereof that land was a type and figure, or that he did not take notice of it as a type and figure of heaven, and therefore is content to sell it, as we use to speak, dog cheap, for a morsel of meat, or a mess of pottage. To part with the things that are signs & means of attaining eternal life, for the base & trifling matters of this life, & if he cannot have both, to choose rather to have the earthly, & let the spiritual go, lo this is I say profaneness. A setting of earthly trifling good things, as it were a mess of good broth; before the signs and outward means of attaining life everlasting, even those things that should do us spiritual good, by helping us to grace & glory, this I say is profaneness, this is Esau's offence. The birthright carried with it divers things, 1. The sovereignty & chief government of the family. 2. The priesthood also, and right to be as the minister of the whole family. 3. Here and in this case, interest to the land of Canaan.